End is near

The end of civilized society is coming closer and closer by the day. I have blogged in the past about manners on the phone, and texting. Now there is another reason to inappropriately use your phone and never actually have to talk to anyone. Now I read this little article about a company that allows its users to never talk to anyone. Are you kidding me?

Now we don't even have to talk to anyone every again, we can just exchange a series of voice mail messages. Sad. Why do you even have a cell phone that you pay for, some people pay over $100 to have a phone that they never actually call on? This makes me die a little on the inside. Someday no one will ever call anyone, we'll just send a series of signals to each other while living inside our own individual bubbles, never interacting with anyone else.

I actual have a coward of a friend who when he calls you he never leaves a message. He says that the phone will list him as a missed call, so what's the point of leaving a message? How about to be a man and interact with another human being?


Update: I tried it and the phone rang, so I don't know if it really works, or what happened. Don't really care though either.

Lets Use Big-Boy Word

IMNSHO - (In My Not So Humble Opinion) these texting shortcuts and abbreviations have gotten way out of control and need to be stopped. Have we become that lazy people? If are message to someone is that long, how about we do the old fashion thing and call the person with our cell phone (usually this is cheaper anyways). I have also noticed that these text message abbreviations have made there way into common language.


This site: http://www.swalk.com/ has literally hundreds of abbreviations that can be used. "I h8 every1." There are abbreviations for ridiculous phrases like rolling on the floor laughing unable to speak, and ok, old man, good night. Who uses this crap, seriously?

WTS? (What the shizzle) Texting should be used in the extreme case in which either you or the other person cannot literally talk on the phone. (In a bar, club, church, at work, in a meeting) Thats it. Otherwise it is a slap in the face to the other person, that you don't even want to talk to them, you just want to text them. I have seen people have 20 minutes conversations with people, one in which they have sent 8-9 messages. This conversation on the phone would have taken 3 minutes. If you are going to text someone, just use real big-boy words, not these crazy abbreviations that really mean nothing.

I have also seen these abbreviations make their way into common language. I was recently reading a blog on the show Lost about some theories this guy had. I literally could not read it, he used abbreviations for every other word. It made no sense. When you are typing on the computer, there is no reason to not type the whole words, it will take an extra 3 seconds per sentence at most. I have also seen people use common abbreviations like U, 2mrw, 2day, 4ever, when writing normal, business type, documents to be read by others. If you want someone to think you are a complete idiot-douche bag, then please keep using abbreviations in common documents, otherwise use real words. If aliens landed on our planet, they would think we started a new language, but would then quickly figure out that really it is just that we have become incredibly lazy.

BFN (Bye for Now)